#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1945
[Victory in Europe theme]
Illustration by Peter Piening (1908-1977 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1945.
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #PeterPiening #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #WW2 #VEDay
@lronlacy.bsky.social![‘born in Grabow, Germany, [Piening] was a German-American graphic designer as well as professor of advertising design & director of the design centre at Syracuse University. Piening spent his early career freelancing as an illustrator & artist for various publishing companies, eventually settling in Paris to work for Conde-Nast's French publication of Vogue. In 1934 he moved to the United States to work in Conde-Nast's New York City office. For the next two decades, Piening worked for many important advertising agencies & magazine publishers, including the N. W. Ayer & J. Walker Thompson agencies & Life & Fortune magazines. As art director for Life in the 1930s & for Fortune in the 1940s, Piening completely redesigned the layout of each magazine. He also redesigned the layouts for thirty-four other major American magazines, including Town & Country and Cosmopolitan.’ - https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html 24](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:lcxdn7fcxeec4lw454ihzair/bafkreiceewz5xklzivlbp32e53fuzhc5z73boj6dkbgrcbbbykcldijjoi@jpeg)
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